Getting Started
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Current Stable Release:
- OpenCPN 5.6.2 Maintenance Release April 22, 2022
Read the Update Summaries.
- OpenCPN 5.5.9 released on October 2, 2021.
- OpenCPN 5.2.4 released on October 18, 2020. Bug Fix, Graphical & UI Improvements.
- OpenCPN 5.2.0 Summary released on July 15 , 2020.
- OpenCPN 5.0.0 Summary released on March 23, 2019.
Other Resources
- Epub Book - Summary New features.
- Exploring OpenCPN (v4) Required reading YachtValhalla's PDF Tutorial for the new user.
- Exploring OpenCPN (v4) PDF Tutorial for the new user.
- Cruisers Forum. For help from a large community of Users
- Developers Manual For Advanced users with programming experience
User Manual Download
- OpenCPN-4.8.2.7z (doc482.7z) 20mb HTML. Uncompress and use Browser.
- OpenCPN-4-8-6-Sept-18-18-compress-lossy-2-70pc.epub mb (16mb) Epub Book Reader likr Calibre Reader or Firefox Epub Extension.
- OpenCPN-4-8-6-Sept-18-18-medium-compressed.pdf (25mb) PDF OpenCPN User Manual Download
- Android OpenCPN User Manual App by David Register from Google Playstore. It has an embedded eBook reader.
Another technique is to use HTTrack Website Copier and download/mirror the html help files. Download it and make mirror a copy of the current manual to your computer. Don't forget too add filters so that file links are not downloaded! See FAQ For example, add file filters for -*.zip, -*.7z and any other linked files you do not want downloaded.
Next Steps
Getting started using OpenCPN consists of 4 basic steps:
- OpenCPN Installation Guide to installing OpenCPN on your particular OS and computer.
- Chart Installation Three alternatives.
- GPS Setup to communicate location to OpenCPN (Optional, but very useful)